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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1896
Page
5
Local notes from Portsmouth sketch a busy scene with visits, travel plans, new projects, and community quirks. Cadets aboard the Bancroft in Zonnhaven Bay, Knitting Mills expanding, and fields’ minstrels drawing crowds highlight a snapshot of civic life amid street work, visits, and forthcoming school annex readiness.
Reports describe chicken theft concerns in suburbs and a drunken man warned to leave town. A body found after a drowning incident near Newman’s Creek is identified as John Lester, with coroner ruling accidental death. Robbery case follows as Muluis King’s clothes and $15 vanish, captured by Constable Anderson. County property transfers list sales on Lambert s Point and Tanner s Creek. A motorist injury notes Frank Mears fell after hitting a rock on Middle Street damaging his bicycle tire.
The tug Standish, after a thorough overhaul at the navy yard, departed yesterday evening for Annapolis Maryland. It will be used by the cadets of the Naval Academy.
In Berkley patrons protest the removal of teachers to the South Norfolk school and advocate for late teachers from that school to fill vacancies. Also notes: Postmaster T. Humphries illness, Sargeant Reid and local street incident, Levy M. Lewis family visiting in Saxes, Va., no mayoral cases, electric light company trouble with incandescent lights, Dr. Billsol y takes position in Hampton, Grace Howard returns from Gloucester, steamer New York undergoing repairs, Mary A. Burris to Cherry stone, Va.
A Nebraska State Journal note recalls a pauper tale of a prosperous husband who vanished with creditors. His wife and daughter fall on hard times then thrive, with the wife’s sewing and the daughter’s teaching. A tramp arrives, claiming the man, and tension peaks as a dramatic twist unfolds in a village tale.
An extraordinary inquest tale recalls a man who swallowed a half sovereign twenty six years ago and died of a diseased heart. The coin lodged in the left bronchial tube without harming the holder, who died, while a similar conjuring tale shows a live worker with a valve holder.
A Savannah News report describes a noisy political meeting where Brother Gardner introduces Nickodemus Washington of Kentucky to address politics. The orator boasts McKinley as the candidate, mocks rivals, and lists past grievances with tariffs and prices, ending in a raucous hall collapse.
Advert shows Lawrence and Wellton store, J. Crawford’s fridge and screens discounted, silks, parasols, and wrap cloth on sale. Listings include Breslauer Anthony, Levy Jacobs, A J Phillips, and Charles Whlton Co with low prices and plain figures. Louisiana legislature drafts a central election bill reflecting the Australian ballot idea.
The North Carolina State Horticultural Society held its sixteenth annual meeting in Southern Pines with J. Van Lindsey as president and Gerald McCarthy as secretary. Papers discussed experimental crop fortification and peach and plum growing in the sand hill region. Attendees toured Van Lindley’s vineyards and the Taft model town Pinehurst, with several speeches by notable figures.
Elizabeth City reports progress as a large dredge and stump puller head to Dismal Swamp Canal for canal enlargement begun at one end in May. Officials expect completion within twenty one months. A Baptist church lawn party was held, a Polite Court assault case fined $1 and costs, and the Populist Convention named Skinnes for Congress Newsome for Senator and White for District elect. Weather remains cool.
Hertford M C August 20 Special reports Professor W. Tome and family departed Hertford this week en route to Durham. Further details are unavailable.
The article extols electricity as the most versatile force for measuring heat, motion, and chemical activity, praising its precision and potential. It discusses electrical sensors, safety alarms in boilers, and automated furnace control, noting ongoing inventions that extend electrical actuation from sensors to self-operating mechanisms.
Men and Affine Bt. Louis shifts turn toward Key West as a center with St. Louis supporting a National Cany Mon. Autobiographies loom from Hrated weiresses and celebrities like Klien Terry Mme Ristom as they prepare fall releases. Miss Jane Harrison gains honorary LL D and Archaeological Society membership. Robert B E Lewis leaves Boston Yours to head a student mission movement.
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